Think the managers hands were tied re the set up of the midfield on Friday, with Appere and McMullan out injured it obviously left us short on wide players so the only other option he had was to play Glass on the right instead of Harkes or play him in the middle at the expense of Butcher or Powers or play Glass out wide right and play Harkes in middle at the expense of Butcher or Powers. The thing is though like a few others have said it was our woeful final ball that was our downfall and not the central area.
When Appere and McMullan are back in contention then we can't have Butcher and Powers in the same midfield. Harkes has to get back there v ICT on Friday
Butcher for me has been really poor recently(nothing to do with Power's arrival that's ridiculous) and I'd like to see him pair up with Watson at the back as I don't have much confidence in either Reynolds or Connolly.
Agree with the first two paragraphs in full, disagree with the last paragraph about Butcher
He is our best cm that's where he should play for me
That's what's worked the majority of the season, we don't need to change much, it's just over a month ago we need to look to find the correct formula
Appere was already named on the bench prior to getting injured in the warm up, Neilsons went in to the match with the tactical decision to play Harkes on the right.... that is of course mental and worrying. Whilst I currently still like Neilson and think he is a massive improvement on the recent managers he is starting to show why Hearts fans wanted rid of him even though he was doing well.
Anyone know how many crosses were played into the Alloa box on Friday?,including corners and free kicks i would guess at between 20 to 30.Any kind of decent delivery or finishing and we would have won by a goal or 2.I honestly do not think we are anything better than an average side with a good goalscorer but although this current team would fight relegation in the top league they are too far ahead to be reeled in by any Championship side.